Re: [gentoo-dev] symlinks in the tree

2015-09-12 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Samstag, 12. September 2015, 15:12:08 schrieb Justin Lecher (jlec): > Hi, > > I would like to discuss the pro and cons of usage of symlinks in the > tree, which are possible now as we aren't bound to CVS anymore > Please please just ban them completely. -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux

Re: [gentoo-dev] symlinks in the tree

2015-09-12 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2015-09-12, o godz. 15:30:45 "Justin Lecher (jlec)" napisał(a): > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 12/09/15 15:19, hasufell wrote: > > +1 for banning symlinks > > > > mrueg just mentioned a very crucial point. There are filesystem which > don't

Re: [gentoo-dev] symlinks in the tree

2015-09-12 Thread NP-Hardass
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 In my wine-a-holics overlay, I used symlinks. I found that occassionally, git would act up and replace the symlink with the linked file when committing. I never found out how or why, but for this reason alone, I highly recommend against it.

Re: [gentoo-dev] symlinks in the tree

2015-09-12 Thread Patrice Clement
Saturday 12 Sep 2015 15:30:45, Justin Lecher (jlec) wrote : > On 12/09/15 15:19, hasufell wrote: > > +1 for banning symlinks > > > > mrueg just mentioned a very crucial point. There are filesystem which > don't support symlinks and would break everything. > > +1 too A functionality that

Re: [gentoo-dev] symlinks in the tree

2015-09-12 Thread Ulrich Mueller
> On Sat, 12 Sep 2015, Justin Lecher (jlec) wrote: > I would like to discuss the pro and cons of usage of symlinks in the > tree, which are possible now as we aren't bound to CVS anymore > We have quite a number of ebuilds already in the tree defining > functionality for both, regular

Re: [gentoo-dev] symlinks in the tree

2015-09-12 Thread hasufell
+1 for banning symlinks

Re: [gentoo-dev] symlinks in the tree

2015-09-12 Thread Justin Lecher (jlec)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 12/09/15 15:19, hasufell wrote: > +1 for banning symlinks > mrueg just mentioned a very crucial point. There are filesystem which don't support symlinks and would break everything. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0

Re: [gentoo-dev] symlinks in the tree

2015-09-12 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/12/2015 03:12 PM, Justin Lecher (jlec) wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to discuss the pro and cons of usage of symlinks in > the tree, which are possible now as we aren't bound to CVS anymore > > We have quite a number of ebuilds already in